All 4 Uses of
monotonous
in
Jane Eyre
- The incident had occurred and was gone for me: it WAS an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of a monotonous life.†
p. 136.6 *monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof!†
p. 211.1monotony = lack of variety
- And do you like that monotonous theme?†
p. 230.5monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content," he added, with emphasis, "to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains — my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed — made useless.†
p. 409.8
Definition:
lacking in variety -- typically boring